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Lecture 11: What are the Parts that Make Up the Whole?. Professor Christopher Bradley. Wedding Crashers (2005) Written by Steve Faber & Bob Fisher. Previous Lesson. Writing the End Revelation Climax and Resolution

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A scene is a unit of action – a single event or exchange between characters, with unity of time and place.

It propels the plot forward, toward the climax and resolution (and has a climax and resolution of its own).

Think of plot as the blueprint, scenes as the basic building blocks, and theme as the mortar that holds everything together. The whole should match the original blueprint as well as possible, but stay loose!

Just as the entire screenplay builds to a climax individual scenes also build to climaxes.

If the significant point is given at the beginning of the scene, all that follows will be anti-climactic and instead of growth, amplification or development in the drama, there will be a letdown for the audience. Once the main point is made, the scene is over.

Does the power one character has over the other come from a personal agreement between the characters such as marriage or friendship? Or is it governmental or about employment, such as Police Officer/Arrestee or President/Chief-of-Staff or Shop Foreman/Factory Worker?

Be creative with your setting! The setting itself can be a source of conflict in the scene, such as a child who is terrified of water being taken to a birthday party at a water park, or a woman whose daughter was killed in a drive-by shooting ending up at a gun show.

Giving a character scenery to connect to or physical props to put into his hands enlivens the scene and increases its level of reality.

Discuss one of your favorite scenes from a feature film in terms of some of the concepts for creating scenes we’ve discussed in this lesson. Now that you understand more about how scenes work, use this understanding to explain why this scene works so well.

You should now be in the rewriting stage of your screenplay. Choose one scene and rewrite it in terms of the concepts we’ve discussed in this lesson. You might inject humor, give your character bits of business, make the subtext more evident and so on.